Mercury was born during The Chaos that existed between the destruction of the First
World and the formation of This World. As a child he was therefore one of The First, that
group of people who were the first to populate This World.
As a child Mercury watched The First come together and organise their new home with the
help of Jupiter and some of The Six. He also watched, helpless, as he who would divide
reappeared and the first cracks began to appear.
By the time Mercury was fully grown the first bickering had occurred and turned slowly to
division before escalating all the way to war. For which the young man signed up.
As Mercury trained to join his kin on the battlefield, his training sergeant saw something in
him that was missing from his fellow recruits- a light, a glow, in his eyes that the sergeant
felt predicted a future that would never fully be separated from battle.
In the field Mercury was no shirker. He could always be found close to the heat of it,
moving fluidly and always proving his worth. And it was mostly under his influence that the
forces of Jupiter began to turn the tide of the First War. Hence he was crowned as This
World’s first champion, an honour created for him and one that made him fiercely proud.
Incredibly important was Mercury in every battle he fought; though, of course, it was the
actions of Mars that would win the war. A fact often cited as the reason Mercury later
disappeared- that he had snapped under the weight of his own pride and fled from all
people. Others suggested that he had grown tired of the work he had left the army for-
certainly, at that time, there wasn’t that much threat to convoys, after all. And not many
places for them to travel between, either.
His training sergeant, though. He always had suspicions created by that burning in
Mercury’s eyes. And if he’d lived to see Mercury return in another form he would have
seen himself proved correct.
World and the formation of This World. As a child he was therefore one of The First, that
group of people who were the first to populate This World.
As a child Mercury watched The First come together and organise their new home with the
help of Jupiter and some of The Six. He also watched, helpless, as he who would divide
reappeared and the first cracks began to appear.
By the time Mercury was fully grown the first bickering had occurred and turned slowly to
division before escalating all the way to war. For which the young man signed up.
As Mercury trained to join his kin on the battlefield, his training sergeant saw something in
him that was missing from his fellow recruits- a light, a glow, in his eyes that the sergeant
felt predicted a future that would never fully be separated from battle.
In the field Mercury was no shirker. He could always be found close to the heat of it,
moving fluidly and always proving his worth. And it was mostly under his influence that the
forces of Jupiter began to turn the tide of the First War. Hence he was crowned as This
World’s first champion, an honour created for him and one that made him fiercely proud.
Incredibly important was Mercury in every battle he fought; though, of course, it was the
actions of Mars that would win the war. A fact often cited as the reason Mercury later
disappeared- that he had snapped under the weight of his own pride and fled from all
people. Others suggested that he had grown tired of the work he had left the army for-
certainly, at that time, there wasn’t that much threat to convoys, after all. And not many
places for them to travel between, either.
His training sergeant, though. He always had suspicions created by that burning in
Mercury’s eyes. And if he’d lived to see Mercury return in another form he would have
seen himself proved correct.
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